Defense

Upon succeeding Richard Nixon in 1974, President Gerald Ford proclaimed, "Our long national nightmare is over." Ford was referring to the Watergate scandal that had preoccupied the nation for months. But the nightmare of Vietnam that began in 1955, when we first dispatched military advisers to Southeast Asia and then ignominiously pulled out of that foreign policy disaster on April 30, 1975, continues to haunt our nation. The 40th anniversary of that pullout is something most Americans would prefer to forget. But the somber black marble monument wall in the nation's capital bearing the names of 58,272 of those who died in Vietnam must never be forgotten. Those deaths...

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